Dementia Adviser

About The Role
**Salary**: £20,363 rising to £22,726 after 9 months.
**Hours**: 35
**Office Location**: Community worker
**Area role covers**: Luton
**Contract type**:Fixed term until July 2024
**About the role**
**Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging career in supporting people affected by dementia?**
**Do you feel you could you help people maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being and enable them to take more control of their lives?
Would you thrive in a stimulating role where every day is different?**
**If yes, we’d love to tell you more**:

- We are looking to welcome an approachable, enthusiastic and knowledgeable Dementia Adviser who will specifically focus their work to provide dementia support specifically to those individuals living or caring for someone with dementia from diverse and underrepresentedcommunities across Luton.
Luton’s Diverse Community Dementia Support Service is a two-year funded project, with a particular focus on:
Raising awareness of dementia, to reduce stigma, offering timely and culturally appropriate information on support and services.
- Provide dementia support for people with a diagnosis, their carers, and their wider family from communities that traditionally have been underrepresented in the past
- Role manage Community Link Volunteers to enable us to extend our reach people who may have previously been isolated by language, accessibility needs, identity, or background.
- Deliver educational sessions and peer support groups to people living with dementia, their carers and family members.
This is an amazing and rewarding opportunity to provide support and guidance to people living with dementia and their carers. We strive to help people maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, and put them more control of their own lives.We promote a person-centred service so that our support is unique to each individual based upon their own aspirations and needs.
**About you**
**You will have**:

- A passion for supporting people to maintain their independence, improve their sense of well-being, and help them take more control of their lives
- A solid and compassionate understanding of the needs of people affected by dementia
- The ability to work inclusively with people affected by dementia, along with an understanding of the need for client confidentially
- Great communication skills, adapting your approach to ensure understanding at all levels
- Effective networking and influencing skills and the ability to manage several tasks at once and keep yourself motivated to perform under pressure
- Good IT skills and experience working with databases
- The ability to travel across the geographical area independently if/when required

**Your role will include**:

- Although this role is community based there will be a percentage of your week where you will work from home.
- Supporting people to access vital services
- Improving people’s sense of well-being, enabling them to have more control over their lives
- Assisting with the identification of needs and provide information and access to relevant services
- Promoting our amazing service and build relationships with a range of health and social care professionals
- Supporting people affected by dementia with the transition from hospital back to ‘home’

About Alzheimer's Society
At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.
Everything we do is shaped by people affected by dementia. Their knowledge and experience are critical to bringing about real-world solutions. From choosing the most promising research through to telling their stories to raise awareness; they are the heartof this organisation.
**Our Values**
We are **Determined to make a difference**when and where it matters most, by being passionate, focussed and making a lasting impact for people affected by dementia.
Every one of us is a **Trusted expert**, listening, learning and using evidence and experience. We are **Better together** by being open, combining our strengths, helping us to achieve more together. We are **Compassionate**, we are kind and honest, and we don’t shy away from challenges.
Through our values we will make the greatest difference for people affected by dementia.
**Equal Opportunities**
We want everyone we work with, as a colleague, volunteer, supporter, or someone we support, to feel included and that they belong at Alzheimer's Society.
We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do. During your recruitment process we want to make sure that you bring your whole self and be at your best.